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I'm trying to sort the meta tags for my website so it comes up better in search engines. I found out where to do it but it asks for a name and value under user variables. What do i put in them. I'm using frontpage. Many thanks

I used to use a site generator such as
http://www.addme.com/meta.htm
Fill it all in dont tick their two tickbox's then click submit query and copy the tags into the code.

if you want better search engine results you're better off working on your content than meta tags, while they do play a part the content is used much more.

just had a look at your tags and there's a few mistakes, the one that reads should read the name attribute of the tag is what the search engines look at to tell then what the content means, don't just go stuffing hundreds of keywords into it though, as google will actually mark you down for that, you need to put in important words and phrases that actually appear in the site, as then google will know that these are the phrases you want to be found under.

You don't have any 'h' tags in the page either, having h tags (h1 h2 etc.) in the page tells google what the page is all about, in your page copy and paste the following h1 tag after your logo so it looks like
the display:none bit will make sure it's hidden from view, don't use more than 1 h1 on a page, as the others will be ignored, you can use h2 tags though, so what i would dois change the line to this, to get a few keywords in there and stress their importance that should get you on your way, basically go through the site and if something is acting as a heading, change it to an h tag (h1 h2 or h3 depending on importance, but only 1 h1 tag) and chuck a couple of keywords in there.

hope this helps

Thanks guys I'll give this a go, if I can get some time

tutton u passed ur test yet mate?

webster wrote:if you want better search engine results you're better off working on your content than meta tags, while they do play a part the content is used much more.

just had a look at your tags and there's a few mistakes, the one that reads

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<meta content="valeting, valet, valeter, car wash" name="valeting"/>

should read

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<meta content="valeting, valet, valeter, car wash" name="keywords"/>

the name attribute of the tag is what the search engines look at to tell then what the content means, don't just go stuffing hundreds of keywords into it though, as google will actually mark you down for that, you need to put in important words and phrases that actually appear in the site, as then google will know that these are the phrases you want to be found under.

You don't have any 'h' tags in the page either, having h tags (h1 h2 etc.) in the page tells google what the page is all about, in your page copy and paste the following h1 tag after your logo so it looks like

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<img width="1022" height="282" border="0" src="Images/header.gif"/>
<h1 style="display:none;">Parkers Valeting Service, Mobile Car Valeting for a FABulous shine</h1>

the display:none bit will make sure it's hidden from view, don't use more than 1 h1 on a page, as the others will be ignored, you can use h2 tags though, so what i would dois change the line

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<font size="7" face="Comic Sans MS">Home</font>

to this, to get a few keywords in there and stress their importance

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<h2>Welcome to Parkers Mobile Car Valeting Service</h2>

that should get you on your way, basically go through the site and if something is acting as a heading, change it to an h tag (h1 h2 or h3 depending on importance, but only 1 h1 tag) and chuck a couple of keywords in there.

hope this helps

I think I've got the keywords sorted but does it take time for it to work on google?

I tried the title bit but it was messing up the actual title. Will have another go soon.

Thanks for your help

Works ok in Yahoo

Try typing valeting axminster

yeah, google will take a little while, your tags look OK now, you just need to do a bit of work on the content as that should help quite a bit

Thanks, you're a star

Also check out http://www.selfseo.com/

There are lots of tools in there for you to find out about what keywords to use. As if you are using really popular keywords, your site will be so far down the list if anyone search that they would not find you. Whereas if you used the really unpopular keywords, then you will appear really high on the list however no one is ever going to search for that keyword.

Also keywords work more like keyphrases now, and google ignore many words like "in", "and" etc..

So keywords that you want to be using are things like "axminster car wash", "axminster valeting" however with this I have already used axminster twice, so the third time would be keyword spamming.

Once you have chosen your keywords, you want to focus on getting these keywords on the site in as many heading titles as you can. Search engines love content to look through, so wherever you use text instead of images. For any images that you do use, make sure to fill in the title and alt attributes.

Also google crawlers will look through a certain length of your website, so if your code is made in tables, then most of the code is taken up by the layout and important text could be missed. Use div's and CSS everywhere as it can also make changes alot easier (get firebug).

Other things you will need to do is create a google sitemap, sign up for google analytics, set your robots.txt file and create a url list file for Yahoo.

Good Luck!

Thanks loads for that Dave

If you type 'car valeting Axminster' there I am, 4th one down

I haven't checked other search words though like 'car wash axminster' or 'car valet axminster' or under other areas/towns eg east devon, chard, honiton etc

Thanks again though folks, ya all jems

Now it's time to get rid of the Comic-Sans off your website

Ha it's all varanda or whatever except the logo wich I working on

Check it out

http://www.parkersvaletingservice.co.uk